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“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
Kofi Annan
“You can't become the best teacher unless you have been taught by your own student, at least once.”
Fahim Uddin
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
John W. Gardner
“Education is the cheap defense of nations”
Edmund Burke
“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”
William Morris
“To teach is to learn twice.”
Joseph Joubert
“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
John Ruskin
“The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.”
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”